Administrator account creation via unprotected user management
Published May 11, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024
Cross-site request forgery in ForestBlog's management interface allows remote attackers to create administrator accounts through a crafted link. The administrator user-management action accepts account-creation and deletion requests without verifying request origin or a CSRF token. Exploitation requires a logged-in administrator to follow an attacker-supplied link; the forged request creates a management account or deletes a user.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in ForestBlog's management interface allows remote attackers to create administrator accounts through a crafted link. The administrator user-management action accepts account-creation and deletion requests without verifying request origin or a CSRF token. Exploitation requires a logged-in administrator to follow an attacker-supplied link; the forged request creates a management account or deletes a user.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-18964
- Published
- May 11, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-352, T1566.002
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 11, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 4, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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Attacks
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Public exploit references
- ForestBlog user-management CSRF proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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